[HN Gopher] Build a Game This November with GitHub Game Off
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Build a Game This November with GitHub Game Off
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 70 points
Date : 2020-10-27 19:43 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| nimbius wrote:
| from the article...
|
| >Heck, we've even had Commodore 64 and NES games submitted!
|
| I certainly hope those games weren't intended to circumvent the
| logic of the 10NES checking Integrated Circuit chip as that would
| be a clear violation of the DMCA.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I don't want to fuss with a feature filled game engine. Does
| anyone have any suggestions of a code-based game engine that
| waaaay simplifies and restricts you in some way?
|
| I really want to make a game based on strict limitations but to
| write it in code and not some graphical editor.
|
| I'm two hours in witu phaserjs and I've just done boilerplate
| with cameras and scenes. It looks great but it's overkill for me.
|
| Edit: thank you all. So many great leads here.
| krisoft wrote:
| If you are looking for strict limitations check out the
| arduboy: https://arduboy.com/
|
| It's a credit card sized game system which you can program with
| the Arduino IDE.
| lee337 wrote:
| Sounds to me like you might be interested in fantasy consoles
| like
|
| * LIKO-12.........https://liko-12.github.io/
|
| * PICO-8..........https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
|
| * Pixel Vision 8..https://www.pixelvision8.com/
|
| * TIC-80..........https://tic80.com/
| modeless wrote:
| Pico-8? https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
|
| Or PuzzleScript https://www.puzzlescript.net/
| mrspeaker wrote:
| Pico-8 (or one of its knock-offs like Tic-80) is a great
| choice for just concentrating on making something. Built-in
| gfx, map, and audio editors: 8x8px sprites. Very limiting,
| but very fun. I prototype everything in Pico-8 now.
| gg8019 wrote:
| https://www.raylib.com/
| dllthomas wrote:
| For something a little different, there's code.world
| bogwog wrote:
| Love2D is not a bad choice. As far as restrictions go, I'd say
| Lua is a pretty limited language lol.
| eivarv wrote:
| Pyxel: https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
| rstupek wrote:
| Solar2d https://solar2d.com/
| dljsjr wrote:
| Bevy is an up and comer code-only engine (in Rust) that's still
| very young but has a decent collection of examples:
| https://bevyengine.org
| CSSer wrote:
| This might be the opposite of what you're looking for, but
| p5.js[0] is a decent candidate if you want to build a barebones
| game (physics) engine yourself. It may sound like a lot but you
| may be surprised to see how far you can get depending on what
| your end goal is, and you may just create something novel as a
| result. See here[1] and here[2] for a rudimentary example.
|
| [0] https://p5js.org/
|
| [1]https://dev.to/soorajsnblaze333/how-to-create-a-simple-
| physi...
|
| [2]https://dev.to/soorajsnblaze333/how-to-create-a-simple-
| physi...
| NortySpock wrote:
| And P5.play is an expansion library for P5.js that gives you
| sprites, collision detection and a virtual camera, while
| still being unminified and reasonably easy to read.
| https://molleindustria.github.io/p5.play/
|
| I did have to pin p5.js to v0.5.4 as apparently p5.play
| hasn't been updated and didn't play nicely with newer
| versions of p5.
| Ibethewalrus wrote:
| Idea: a game where you fight DMCA takedowns...
| wyldfire wrote:
| Are there any boilerplate projects providing a demo of an open
| source 2d or 2d+physics game engine? (Presumably the answer to
| that is yes). Bonus points if I can use rust/zig or easily target
| android or iOS.
| remram wrote:
| Well finally I get the link. GitHub has been sending news about
| their "Game Off" in their weekly "GitHub explore the week"
| newsletter with a broken link. I should have known it would be
| somewhere on itch.io, doh!
| lee337 wrote:
| Thanks for the heads up. Will get that fixed :)
| rouxz wrote:
| Does the participating game have to be open sourced? Can't find
| the info on blog.
| bogwog wrote:
| Coincidentally (maybe), today also marks the end of perhaps the
| most popular game jam event, Ludum Dare.
|
| Which I find kind of interesting. Even though LD has been around
| for a long time, I would've thought a Github-sponsored game jam
| would get a lot more participation. This blog post says that
| their previous jam had over 200 submissions, whereas the latest
| LD had nearly 3300 in a 72-hour period.
| reificator wrote:
| > _Coincidentally (maybe), today also marks the end of perhaps
| the most popular game jam event, Ludum Dare._
|
| Don't scare me like that!
| wheybags wrote:
| Ludum dare is a weekend. This is a month, which is a big
| turnoff. Case in point: I made an entry for the most recent
| ludum dare jam, but I probably won't enter this one, because
| it's just way too long.
| flixic wrote:
| This year's GMTK GameJam had 5477 games submitted, I think the
| biggest game jam in history.
| xmprt wrote:
| End of LD 47 to be precise. I thought for a second I missed
| something that said LD was ending for good.
|
| LD 48 is still scheduled for April 2021
| tgb wrote:
| When I started programming, it was to make games during
| middle/high school and I always had the problem of getting them
| running on anyone else's hardware. I haven't touched that for
| years, so what are the easy ways to make things that will run on
| someone else's computer and will still run in 5 years without
| futzing around?
| cxr wrote:
| Making something built to run in the Web browser is the only
| thing we have if your interest is in checking all the relevant
| boxes instead of lying to yourself in some way. Drawbacks, in
| order of decreasing importance:
|
| 1. Terrible, terrible tooling
|
| 2. Hostility from browser vendors themselves
|
| 3. Many APIs are still non-standard/officially "experimental",
| even if implemented
|
| 4. Possible performance issues for ordinary programs, likely
| issues for many games
|
| 5. People will make fun of you for this
| modeless wrote:
| I'm interested to hear more about 1 and 2. In what way are
| browser vendors hostile to games, and what are the biggest
| tooling problems?
| tpxl wrote:
| > Making something built to run in the Web browser is the
| only thing we have if your interest is in checking all the
| relevant boxes instead of lying to yourself in some way.
|
| What. Using a mature language and not relying on feature of
| the day will produce a game you can compile 5 years from now
| and it will just work.
|
| Use SFML or something to provide a cross platform way to
| create windows and interface with the system and you're
| pretty much set.
|
| If doing all the drawing and physics code is too much for you
| to do, use a game engine or a physics library. Those will
| also compile in 5 years from now and run on other people's
| computers (assuming you get the source).
| cxr wrote:
| You're ignoring the constraints that define the problem,
| i.e., you're rewriting the question that was asked and
| giving a response that fits circumstances more favorable to
| your answer, but not the original. (Which is _exactly_ the
| thing that I was trying to pre-empt in my aside about
| checking all boxes, etc. You even quoted this.)
| doomlaser wrote:
| If you want something simple, restricted, and programmer
| friendly, PICO-8 is the way to go
| https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
|
| And in the spirit of open source, I couldn't not recommend the
| open source game engine Godot, which is rapidly closing in on
| its proprietary competitors like Unity and Unreal:
| https://godotengine.org/
| crispyporkbites wrote:
| HTML and JavaScript aren't going anywhere fast
| kfarr wrote:
| Yes web is where it's at!! And tons of nice gaming libraries
| daijj wrote:
| I would really like to participate but I don't have much
| knowledge in game development (mostly JS stack for me). If anyone
| is willing to take on a total noob at this it would be awesome.
| I'm passionate about RTS and would love to build one together (a
| simple one ofc).
| Google234 wrote:
| But can I get a tshirt if I contribute 4 pull requests in other
| people's repos?
| monksy wrote:
| youtube-dl- the game of wackamole
| wryoak wrote:
| Would participate, love game jams, but November is nanowrimo
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